Show 3 SIR JAMES CRAIG IS RECORD MAKER IN IRISH ElECTION I AH Il 1 Factions Congratulate w Themselves for for One Cause or Another C c r t tL L B May lar 27 7 By Associated Ass cI ted fe Sir Tess-Sir i. i Sir Sir James Craig pre premier ler des- des of Ulster ti who ho polled p almost 31 I 1 votes tes in the elections for the Ern Irish parliament t established ar a j- j record cord for the balloting In Uster Ulster competitor was Eamonn de dej j l tIpra ra the Irish republican le leader der Ji 1 received more than votes s- s Griffith founder Counder of oC the Sinn Sine 1 Trem e J fi organization was elected J jW wf lr Griffith was art ested late l last sl z ember r and has since that time been prison in Dublin have l Cone Ione one better in tle the I elections ete than they anticipated the 1 n Fel 1 rs worse worse than their prophets I Pf a and nd d the Nationalists no m more re than they looked looked for iAU are celebrating the celebrating the Unionists I it cb because r fuse they have won the Nationals National National- s and Sinn because they c Iko made their protest against the partition of Ireland Unionists expected to win thirty thirty- Cue of he two fifty-two seats The They will PO probably a ly get nearer forty seats P PROVES OVES PROPHET ET i Bb Daniel McCann chief lieutenant In I le Beast of JOS Joseph ph Devlin Nationalist led etL er had hoped for fourteen Courteen seats did not really believe more than twelve Iv Nationalists 1 and Sinn F Feln rs could uld be returned and he proved pro a ahod ar r hod prophet Counting of the tM ballots will not t ue e probably until the end of or ort oft t a 1 week but present returns s show ow J the Unionists made their greatest frie in In b Belfast where it is expected Y will wm have have- or sixteen sL eais d rb ph h Devlin is the only Nationalist I D inn who will have a seat to tp and even even he was beaten e to ma e own stronghold for first pla place nn on poll by his Unionist opponent T T. J t urBurn Burn His colleague Alderman AldE tB Bin had only votes or wY r than his leader This was due dueK K the he ati 1 Nationalists giving all their first Pots cotes ot s to Devlin Sinn did better than Byrne t t on the first ballot they were well behind the Unionists The Socialists here as in other con con- cont con coil t rUE neils lost their deposit which r if 1 J they h have ve to forfeit forfeit if It they do not re receive re- re a certain number of or votes In In Antrim the Unionists were pretty certain of r six of the seven seats the theother theother theother other going to De lin Louis Walsh Sinn Feiner Felner who was permitted to leave the det detention lamp lampto to take tale part In the election and who headed the poll In n the county council election is now neater nearer the bottom of r the poll although there are many Sinn in North Antrim and the Glens of ot Antrim The Unionist t Barbour Barbour Darbour Bar Bar- bour headed the list with some as compared with Walsh's less than I At Derry the Unionists elected their their three candidates candidates all all they had nominated nomi nomi- thus leaving the other two seats scats to Professor John MacNeil Sinn Fein I I and his Nationalist running mate I DIVIDED EQUALLY in tn County Down where Sir James I Craig Ulster premier er designate and andE E Eamonn onn d de Valera republican leader I 1 were opponents and where both will willbe willbe be elected the seats will be bo divided I equally between the two sides two I I II i and two I i I I Th count in Armagh and Tyrone is belated I The percentage of votes polled was I high in West est Belfast It reached 94 It is noted that in many instances the II candidate whose name was first on the lIst lit which was arranged alphabetically alpha alpha- received the most votes For ex Sir R R. Anderson Unionist had nearly 2000 more than Professor MacNeil M in il Derry where the Sinn SinnI Feiner Felner was expected to lead I The Nationalists probably win eight seats and the Sin four |